Template BabesDesignz_Template16. Unfortunately Babes Designz has closed her blog. I have uploaded the template to 4shared until she decides to start another blog. I didn't realize that she had closed her blog until after I made the tag. I have all of her templates already saved. If you have trouble getting the template please let me know.HERE

Tube my Sonia Roji 7-2 and can be foundHERE
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Hello all. I will be going through a breast reconstruction very shortly and I want to post my thoughts and experiences as I go through this. I wish that I had done this when I went through the cancer and mastectomy. I will post some before and after pictures, so please be aware of this with little eyes around. The procedure that I will be getting done is a TRAM flap. I will be getting a tummy tuck and the tissue from this will be tunneled under the skin and then used to reconstruct the new breasts. My surgeon will be Dr. Cassidy Mitchell. He is located in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. Mitchell says this surgery will last 6-8 hours. The recovery time afterwards will be 4-5 months and no lifting at all during recovery. I live about 3-4 hours away from Lincoln. There will be numerous trips to Lincoln after the surgery. My sister Carla is coming to live with me. She has had her share of problems and didn't have anywhere to go, so I offered her a place to stay. Her coming here to live is a God-send. This will help her out and me out. I didn't know what I was going to do or who I was going to get to help me out. So this move will benefit both of us. I am so looking forward to seeing her again. I can't wait for her to get here. She will be leaving North Carolina on Friday, March 7th. She should get here around Monday through Wednesday, depending on how far she drives each day. My first procedure will be March 13th. The doctor wants to do an out-patient procedure to help make the blood vessels more viable. I am not really sure what will be done but I will tell you more about it after it is done.

I am excited and scared at the same time. This is going to be very painful. When they did the double mastectomy I was cut from back to back, all the way across my chest except for a finger wide piece in the middle. This time I will be cut there again, along with being cut from hip to hip, to do the tummy tuck. I know this will be extremely painful. I am not looking forward to the pain. Right now I have pain due to my fibromyalgia. That will get worse with the surgery. But I am looking forward to the end results, to have boobs again. At times I am self-conscious about not having any. At first it didn't bother me, it was kind of nice not having those 10 pounds on my chest. But I am ready to get them back. Make me feel like a woman again. It will be a difficult 6 months but well worth it in the end.

I would like to apoligize for not posting more tuts. It has been pretty crazy here. My father-in-law passed away very unexpectedly. Was a shock to everyone. He wasn't sick at all. He got up that morning and got dressed and while he was putting on his shoes he said that he was going to do some work around the house then he would be in. My mother-in-law got busy and didn't think much about him not being there, but when noon rolled around she was hungry and then wondered about Dad. They live about 12 miles out in the country, way off the beaten path. You can't see their house from the road. Mom wasn't too concerned at this point but as she got closer to the house she could see that Dad was laying on the ground. He was perfectly straight with one arm by his side and the other one was across his chest clutching his phone. He was already cold by the time Mom got there. In February they were in a car accident and Mom broke both her arms and Dad broke his knee cap. We thought that that was all the damage done to him. But apparently that wasn't the case. He died of a ruptured bowel and I believe that it all started with the car accident. Carl's family is very close and it hit everyone really hard. Carl and I are divorced but I still feel like part of his family. Carl and I are now just roommates. We were in Colorado a little over a week for the funeral, which had to be done on 2 different days. He was buried in the military cemetery and we could only get in there at 11:00am, noon, and 1:00pm. Since the service was held at 2:00pm we had to wait til the next day to do the graveside service. He had a full military funeral with the 21 gun salute and taps played. Was a very beautiful and moving service.

Also I fell again here at the house and I broke the bursa sac behind both knee caps. It is very painful to walk at times, and standing up is even a chore. I go back to the doctor on October 3, so wish me luck. I hope that I won't have to have surgery to repair them. Hopefully they will heal on their own.

So I will get some tuts up as soon as I can. Again, please accept my apology. Thanks.

Ok, so I started with a PTU scrap kit. This was for a challenge and when I saw the template I knew I had to use the Barbara Tube, so I got the kit to go with it. I hope that you like the first tut after my return. Here's to many more.

Go back to all the elements and Sharpen more.
Then go back and add drop shadow 5, 5, 50, 5.

On the top line of words copy and paste a light color from the tube.
On the bottom line of words copy and paste a dark color from tube.
Merge the two new word lines together, expand by 4, add black background.
Drop shadow 5, 5, 50, 5.

I save it here as a psp image. Then I merge visible, Copy and paste
A new image. Resize 97% all layers NOT checked. Resize down
To around 600 x 600 ALL layers checked.

I haven't posted in here in over a year. Kinda forgot about my little blog.

I have tons of free scrap kits and lots of tubes that I haven't used. So my goal is to write some tuts using them. I would love to be on some Creative Teams again, but I am going to start with the freebies first. Also I am going to try to change the background on my blog. I friend of mine did it the last time but she is no longer available. I really don't know how to do so I guess I am going to learn as I go. I sincerely apologize for not being here.

There has been lots of things going on with me medically. I have had 3 surgeries since I last posted. 1 on my left arm, moving my ulnar nerve so it isn't pinched all the time. It had been pinched for about 5 years and I lost feeling in my fingers. The feeling is starting to come back, but not as fast as I would like. The other 2 surgeries were on my right arm. I had the old hardware taken out and they put in new hardware in a different spot. I had 50 staples in so you can imagine how long the scar is, it isn't pretty. The pain is still there so this surgery was not a success. The other surgery was on my right shoulder. I had lots of pain and I couldn't raise my arm very far over my head. My shoulder was partially frozen. So there was a lot of tissue that was damaged and was removed. Also there are 2 tendons that go from the bicep to the shoulder, 1 long and 1 short. The doctor cut the long tendon to help the movement better. He said that if I was younger and into sports they would have fixed the tendon but since I am not in my 20's anymore they left it cut. If I thought I was in pain then it was nothing compared to the pain I have now. It hurts more now than ever before. I go back to the doctor the end of June for a checkup on my arm. I don't know what will be done now. I have been going to physical therapy but it really isn't helping that much, as far as I can see. The PT says that I have a good range of motion but the pain is so bad.

I also got a divorce last October after 19 years of marriage. I feel like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. I think we only had 2 good years and for the last 17 I was very unhappy.

Now I can get on with my life and hopefully find someone who will make me happy. I think I may have found him, but time will tell. We have been together for a year and a half now but we are going through a rough patch right now. He is fighting his feelings, he does this every so often. He was single for 19 years and he isn't ready to give that up just yet. I can understand that but it also frustrates me. He is 67 years old but still works driving a cement truck. He does not look or act his age. Very sexy.

Last September another grandson was born to my youngest son. His name is Chizm David, and yes that is spelled correctly. He was named after a world class bull rider. So there has been a lot of change in this past year, some good, some bad. But that is life, isn't it? Everyone goes through lifes ups and downs. I hope that you will like my tuts and visit often.

I will do my best to post at least 1 new tut a week, hopefully more, but I'm going to start slow.

A note

I remember what it was like when just starting out in Paint Shop Pro. There are lots of wonderful tuts out there, but most of them are for experienced taggers. It is hard to find a tut if you are a beginner, so I will try to write all my tuts so the beginner can learn and follow along. There will be lots of screen shots to make it easier on you. I apologize to the experienced taggers, but I think that it is good to help out the beginners all we can. Thanks for understanding.